Email Hoax Warning

["Bob Forsyth" <>]

g'day all,

 

Not birding ..but ..

 

7/8/2003 I received an email that included several Birding-Aus correspondents I recognised as recipients.

It said that the Senders address book was infected and encouraged recipients to delete the file jdbgmgr.exe.

 

This email is a hoax ! The file is a legitimate Microsoft Debugger Registrar for Java.

 

For more information on this Hoax see

Norton

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/jdbgmgr.exe.file.hoax.html

 

McAfee

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99436.htm

 

Sophos

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/hoaxes/jdbgmgr.html

 

Cyberspace is a dangerous place ! Make sure you have Anti-virus software & also keep it up to date .. and be aware of hoaxes.

 

For Hoax information in general see

http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/

 

Regards
Bob Forsyth, Mount Isa, NW Qld.